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Pretty simple. Now you can run your program that knows what to do with .xyz files.
If so, the answer is going to be the same as in the previous thread; to wit: a Windows executable is not going to run on a Linux system. Period. Renaming the file will not change that. Just sayin'
If so, the answer is going to be the same as in the previous thread; to wit: a Windows executable is not going to run on a Linux system. Period. Renaming the file will not change that. Just sayin'
Sorry, that was a bit too nuanced I think. I meant that to say - you can call it whatever you want, something needs to be able to understand what to do with it.
Sorry, that was a bit too nuanced I think. I meant that to say - you can call it whatever you want, something needs to be able to understand what to do with it.
Precisely. And, again, no matter what the name, if it's a Windows executable (binary) file, it will not run on Linux.
Actually Linux doesn't pay attention to extensions. We use them so that we know what the file is, and most software uses them, but the operating system doesn't need them — it can normally identify a file type from the "magic number" at the start.
The extensions .exe and .iso are very different things — a Windows program and an optical disk image!
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